Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...] The only way it would buy us a lot is to change the linked lists 
> dynamically (ie add new events at the end while old events are still 
> executing), [...]

that's quite close to what Jens' FIO plugin for syslets 
(engines/syslet-rw.c) does currently: it builds lists of syslets as IO 
gets submitted, batches them up for some time and then sends them off. 
It is a natural next step to do this for in-flight syslets as well.

	Ingo
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